Trouser-hanger



Sept. 23, 1958 A A 4 4 W 4 United States Patent TROUSER-HAN GER John August Roggentin, Stockholm, Sweden, assignor to Harald Thur-e Nyherg, Stockholm, Sweden Application July 2, 1956, Serial No. 595,419

1 Claim. (Cl. 223-95) The present invention refers to collapsible trouserhangers adapted for the suspension of trousers and provided with two pairs of carrying members intended to be introduced into the turn-ups of the trousers, the distance of said carrying members from the point of suspension of the hanger being adjustable by means of parallelogram-guided elements. These elements connect the carrying members with a central member, in which the trouser-hanger is adapted to be suspended.

In the use of a contrivance of this type the trousers are kept stretched by their own weight, so that the trouser creases are maintained and any undesirable wrinkling is prevented, or, if already existent, is made to disappear. The trouser-hanger according to the invention is inexpensive in manufacture and easy to use, and adapts itself to the trouser legs, even if the latter should deviate somewhat from each other with respect to shape and weight.

These objects in view are realized by the feature that the elements on both sides of the central member consist each of a pair of U-shaped straps, the portions of which connecting the strap shanks with one another extend through apertures in said central member and the free ends of which are connected in pairs each with one of the two carrying members.

An example of a trouser-hanger according to the invention will be described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein Fig. 1 shows a collapsed trouser-hanger in elevation. Fig. 2 shows the unfolded hanger in elevation, and Fig. 3 shows the same in a plan view.

The trouser-hanger consists of a central member 1, preferably in the form of a parallelepiped, and is provided with a suspension hook 2 with a long stem. Extending on both sides of the hook from opposite sides of the central member 1 are a number of elements 3 in the form of long-shanked straps bent from stiif wire. The

two pairs of strap shanks are received at one end thereof in apertures 4 provided in the central member 1, said apertures being displaced relatively to each other both in lateral and in a vertical direction, the two lowermost apertures being located in the proximity of the outer edgekof the central member, while the remaining apertures are located in the propinquity of the suspension book. The shanks extending from the apertures 4 are all of the same length and have their outer ends pivoted in pairs to the carrying members 5. These carrying members consist on each side of the central member 1 of two rectangular plates at a certain distance from one another, said plates being thin relatively to the central 2,853,216 Patented Sept. 23, 1958 member. These plates are connected to the wire elements 3 in such manner that their longitudinal direction is substantially in agreement with the longitudinal direction of the stem of the hook 2 so as to be approximately vertically directed in the use of the trouser-hanger. By means of the parallelogram, which on both sides of the central member is formed by the wire elements 3 and their pivots in the central member and in the plates 5, the plates are always vertically directed independently of their distance from the hook 2. If desired, the plates 5 of a pair of plates may be connected with each other by means of a brace 6. The dimension in the longitudinal direction is preferably selected so that the hook and the plates 5 are approximately at the same distance from the central member 1 when the trouser-hanger is collapsed according to Fig. l.

The trouser-hanger may be made from different materials. To give it a pleasing appearance, it is preferred to make the central member and the plates 5 from a transparent or translucent colored material such as plastic and to cover the wire elements 3 and the hook 2 with plastic or to line them with colored plastic tubing.

The trouser-hanger is used for the suspension of trousers in such manner that the turn-ups of the trousers are passed over the plates 5, whereupon the hanger is unfolded, so that the edges of the plates bear on the trouser creases. When the trouser-hanger is suspended by its hook, the weight of the trousers cause the wire elements with the plates to spread apart so as to stretch the trousers, which are thus kept smooth at the maintenance of the trouser creases. It is also possible to employ the trouserhanger for the hanging of other articles of dress such as skirts, the hangers generally provided in the skirts being then passed over the plates 5. Through the weight of the skirt the plates will then also spread apart to keep the skirt stretched when the hanger is suspended.

What I claim is:

A suspendable and collapsible trousers hanger comprising a central member, a suspension stern connected at its lower end to said central member and having hook means at its upper end for suspending said central member from a fixed support, a pair of upwardly extending carrying plates at each end of said central member adapted to be introduced into the cuffs of the trousers, each of said carrying plates having vertical outer end surfaces, and parallelogram means connecting said carrying plate pairs to said central member to cause the end surfaces of said plates to remain vertical as said plates move vertically with respect to said central member, said parallelogram means comprising a pair of U-shaped straps pivotally connected at each end of said central member, the portions of said straps connecting the shanks thereof being rotatably mounted in said central member and the free ends of each pair of straps being pivotally connected in pairs to the associated carrying plates.

References'Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,168,647 Herman Aug. 8, 1939 2,393,632 Hartz Jan. 29, 1946 2,470,079 Kelsey May 10, 1949 2,691,470 Weiler Oct. 12, 1954 

